Michael Andrew Gove is a British politician and the incumbent Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations. He commenced his career as a journalist at The Press and Journal and thereafter served as a leader writer at The Times. A Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath since 2005, Gove, over the course of his expansive ongoing political career, has held several significant positions under different Prime Ministers. These include serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Secretary of State for Education, Chief Whip of the House of Commons, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under David Cameron; Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under Theresa May; and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and later Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations under Boris Johnson. He was dismissed by Johnson from the latter two positions after he advised Johnson to resign as Prime Minister during the July 2022 Government crisis. Gove was later reinstated in these two positions after Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister. A member of the Conservative Party, Gove ran for the party’s leadership election in 2016 and 2019, however ended up third on both occasions. As co-convenor of Vote Leave, the campaigning organisation that supported for exit of the UK from the European Union, Gove, along with Johnson and Labour MP Gisela Stuart, fronted the organisation and emerged as prominent figures during the 2016 Brexit referendum.